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The QUILTBAG Club (formerly the LGBT club)
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Aobaru
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surskitty
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That's not necessary and is probably actively harmful. Please don't equate bigot with southerner.
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Dannichu
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Those facebook quizzes confound me utterly. WHICH IS BETTER, MALE OR FEMALE??? and SHOULD FOOTBALLERS BE PAID MORE THAN SOLDIERS?
Accurate, reliable and unbiased data-gathering for the win.
JackPK
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This is why I didn't answer that poll, because it should have been checkmarks instead of one-choice-only.
Aobaru
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Well, in his defense, the South is a pretty desolate place in terms of LGBT-friendliness. Though things are slowly improving.
JackPK
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It all depends on where in the South you are; I live in Central Texas* and don't see any more homophobia than I imagine would be in an average high school / college setting anywhere... if we're going to demonize anywhere, Utah would be my first instinct.
*Admittedly, Austin's predominately liberal; it was the only blue county in all of Texas in the 2008 presidential election, I believe.
^ Texas is too awesome to be part of the South. It's like its own little government. :3 I'm talking about the Arkansas/Tennessee/Mississippi/Alabama area, where they'll withhold you from getting a job on an application if it's discovered you're gay. And they'll put it in the local news afterwards.
OrngSumb
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Happens other places too. Up in here Michigan my friend's grandfather runs one of the local hardware stores and is quite homophobic. Another friend of mine has parents who call me "the boy who thinks he's gay". Michigan =/= the South and it's just as bad.
Cap'n Sofa
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A lot of my friends and I contributed to that number. I wonder how many of us have already seen this and voted on it.
(psst I'm not actually joining the club unless mere supporters are allowed, I'm straight as...uh, something that is mostly completely straight...?)
JackPK
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I'm pretty sure there's no organization/structure to this "club" any more, it's mostly just post about the topic at hand if you have something to say about it.
Where is this survey? I wish to contribute to that number also~
Harlequin
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I know that Cardiff's LGBT+ Association is split into two groups, one a social wing and one an activist wing. The social wing is, as can be inferred from its name, about social events. They hold coffee mornings, film nights, club nights etc for gays LGBT+ students to meet and interact and whatnot.
The activist wing is all about LGBT+ rights and such. They've managed to get the Student's Union to agree to installing a unisex toilet in the Union and a bunch of other stuff. There was a story in gair rhydd, the student newspaper, about gay students who got asked to leave Solous, the university's nightclub, and they were all "wtf" to the staff about that...
It probably varies depending on where you are, but something that combines the two things above is probably what you'll find.
